Show r 1 Before the Age of Buttons I nE i Persons who read much of historic t I 111 j romance cannot fall to recognize tho request Truss my points which I 3 has been used by every writer of J English from tho time of Chaucer Perhaps everyone who read the < I phrase did not know that it meant I I t t t r 1 In common parlance taco up my 1 Ftty clothes but that is what it did meant mean-t 1I and the reason It ceased to bo used h f le I In actual conversation resulted from 1 the Invention of tho button nnd tho i u tt passing away of the custom of fastening 1 t J fasten-ing the clothes by lacing |